The goals of Project Learn Canada are to:
- demonstrate the value of emerging broadband networks by connecting learners and learning resources from across Canada and the world.
- contribute directly to establishment of an innovative learning culture that will sustain and enhance Canada's position in the global knowledge economy.
The LearnCanada Project is to initiate long-term work on portal/repository middleware for access and distribution of multimedia learning objects across Canada; IBM, NRC and SchoolNet will collaborate with other CANARIE Learning Program projects, including the European Union's IST STARTUP and UNIVERSAL projects.
The LearnCanada Project will develop scenarios for Canada wide deployment of broadband infrastructure and middleware, including: solutions for last-mile broadband connectivity to schools, open systems and interoperability issues, e-commerce and intellectual property issues security and privacy issues and international linkages.
An Integrated Project Development Team will manage the project. Five development teams, with expertise in evaluation, infrastructure, software/multimedia, instructional design and virtual community development have been selected and assigned responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of their team's assigned work packages.
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